Joshua Gillin
May 13, 2013
2:45 pm
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The Philadelphia Inquirer announced just before 2:30 p.m. that a verdict had been reached in the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortion doctor accused of killing four babies born alive and an adult patient. Jurors
have been deliberating for 10 days.
The paper
announced on its Facebook page:
There is a verdict in the Gosnell case, court personnel have told Inquirer reporter John P. Martin. Extra sheriff's deputies have been ordered into the courtroom, which is now locked. Reporters have been told to shut down their phones.
It's unclear if requiring phones to be turned off is a routine occurrence. During the Jerry Sandusky trial, Judge John M. Cleland initially said phones had to be turned off, but later allowed them
to be used for live-tweeting and live-blogging.
Inquirer reporter John P. Martin's
twitter feed is here.
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Andrew Beaujon
Mar. 29, 2013
12:06 pm
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Al Tompkins
Mar. 27, 2013
9:50 am
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments about the Defense of Marriage Act, which denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples. Yesterday, the court considered whether states can ban same-sex marriage.
You can read tweets about these historic hearings as the … Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
July 11, 2012
12:17 pm
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Mallary Jean Tenore
June 28, 2012
4:29 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
June 28, 2012
2:12 pm
The ruling has come down: Both CNN and Fox
badly bungled their reporting of today's landmark Supreme Court opinion on healthcare. And both organizations have taken very different routes to correcting their mistakes.
Here's Fox's correction, via Mediaite:
We gave our viewers the news as it happened. When Justice Roberts said, and we read, that the mandate was not valid under the Commerce clause, we reported it. Bill Hemmer even added, be patient as we work through this. Then when we heard and read, that the mandate could be upheld under the government’s power to tax, we reported that as well—all within two minutes.
By contrast, one other cable network was unable to get their Supreme Court reporter to the camera, and said as much. Another said it was a big setback for the President. Fox reported the facts, as they came in.
And
here's CNN's:
In his opinion, Chief Justice Roberts initially said that the individual mandate was not a valid exercise of Congressional power under the Commerce Clause. CNN reported that fact, but then wrongly reported that therefore the court struck down the mandate as unconstitutional. However, that was not the whole of the Court’s ruling. CNN regrets that it didn't wait to report out the full and complete opinion regarding the mandate. We made a correction within a few minutes and apologize for the error.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 28, 2012
12:42 pm
Forget the
war going on between AP, CNN and Fox over the latter outlets'
botched announcement of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling -- a much more important battle rages in the mediasphere.
On Wednesday, SCOTUSblog reporter Lyle Denniston told The Washington Post's Sarah Kliff that "
our number one ambition is to beat everybody” with news of the ruling. SCOTUSblog's publisher, Tom Goldstein, said his ambition was to beat AP:
“The TV people out front literally won’t have it for about two minutes,” SCOTUSblog publisher and co-founder Tom Goldstein said. “After they hand it to Lyle, I expect 25 seconds after that, we’ll have it on the live blog. I would be surprised if the Associated Press can beat us.”
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Jeff Sonderman
June 28, 2012
9:56 am
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